Example Picard Scripts to Create Variables Before Removing Tags

MonkeyPythonPicardScripts.md

To remove some tags from the files but still have the values available to use in the file naming script, you may first need to save them to temporary variables in a tagging script such as:

$noop( Create temporary variables )
$set(_temp_albumartist,%albumartist%)
$set(_temp_discnumber,%discnumber%)
$set(_temp_totaldiscs,%totaldiscs%)
$set(_temp_compilation,%compilation%)

$noop( Remove unwanted tags )
$delete(albumartist)
$delete(discnumber)
$delete(totaldiscs)
$delete(compilation)

Then the file naming script would use the variables that were created, rather than the tags that are being deleted. The file naming script might look something like:

$if(%_temp_compilation%,,$if2(%_temp_albumartist%,%artist%) - )%album%/
$if($gt(%_temp_totaldiscs%,1),%_temp_discnumber%-,)$num(%tracknumber%,2) %title%
$if($eq(%_temp_albumartist%,%artist%),, - %artist%)